Sunday, 1 November 2015

IBPS PO Main expected cuoff and exam review

IBPS PO Main 2015 Expected cutoff

IBPS conducted PO/MT CWE-V main examination 2015 on 31st October as scheduled earlier. Exam was conducted in two shifts. First section started at 8 am and second section was scheduled at 12.30 pm.In contrary to everyone’s expectations, exam was easier than IBPS PO CWE-IV 2014.We have prepared this “IBPS PO main expected cutoff” based on the experience shared by some of the candidates who have attended IBPS PO mains. Now let us analyse each section.

Quantitative

Quantitative section was easier than that of last year’s PO exam. There were 3 data interpretation questions. One line graph, one table and one pie chart. There were no questions from simplifications, approximation and quadratic equation. Data sufficiency questions and lot of miscellaneous questions(profit and loss, percentage, work and time etc..) were there. Over all difficulty level was moderate (In comparison with last year).

Reasoning

Reasoning section was the most difficult of five sections. Puzzles were time consuming as usual. There were three puzzles. Input output questions were confusing. Syllogism was moderate. There was no question from in equality . Statement and reason, statement and conclusion, “strengthens statement “, “weakens statement” type questions were there. Overall difficulty level of reasoning questions was “Difficult”.

English

English section was easier than expected. There were questions from Error spotting, 2 comprehension passages, fill in the blanks and sentence rearrangement .Overall difficulty level was moderate.

General awareness

There were lot of questions from current affairs. Banking awareness questions were easy. Gk questions were from country-currency, national parks etc.. Those who prepared on an average level could do 25-30 questions. Overall difficulty level was easy(In comparison with last year exam).

Computer Awareness.

Questions were from RAM,Ms office, memory (comparison of kB,MB,GB,TB), browser, warm booting etc.. Those who have average knowledge in computer can answer 15 questions. Overall difficulty was easy.

We have reached this conclusions based on the experience shared by some of the candidates attended IBPS PO CWE-V main examination.

Expected Cutoff of IBPS PO Mains (for general category)

Quantitative

Reasoning

English

General Awareness

Computer

Overall cutoff

9

7.5

12

12

10

86

For sc/st candidates sectional cutoff will be 3-5 lesser than that of general category. Overall cutoff of sc/st candidates will be 20-30 marks lesser than that of general category. For OBC candidates overall cutoff will be 2-3 mark lesser than that of general category.